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SENIOR citizens and leaders of thoughts from a broad spectrum of the Nigerian society, on Saturday, expressed grave concerns over the future of the country, putting forward a roadmap to rescue Nigeria from the brink of total collapse.
The elder statesmen were unanimous in separate submissions at the 2021 edition of the Obafemi Awolowo Foundation lecture series, with the theme: Whither Nigeria, that the country has sunk deeper into a frightening multifaceted crisis that required expeditious action and solution.
The event, which was held via Zoom with over 500 participants from Europe, United States, Asia and other continents across the globe, commemorated the 112 posthumous birthday of the sage, who was born on March 6, 1909.
With the dawn of a new year amidst the Coronavirus pandemic, experts believe that access and availability of internet services would enable students learn remotely so as to close the inequality gap; and that universities in the country must effectively utilise their knowledge-base for development. Funmi Ogundare reports
The year 2020 was a tough one no doubt. With just a week into the new year and 2020 gone with its numerous challenges such as the prolonged strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), which exercebated pre-existing educational disparities thereby reducing the opportunities for many youths, especially when 80 to 90 per cent of students in tertiary institutions are in the public institutions; the novel COVID-19 pandemic, which brought untold hardship on the economy and various sectors, including education, schools closure and lockdown which made more children to be out-of-school; and led to increased in crime rate, rape and other forms of unrest among yo